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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






2. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






3. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.






4. The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.






5. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






6. Transit of Mercury.






7. The Message From Earth will reach Gliese 581.






8. Transit of Venus.






9. The One country - two systems model between China and Macau will expire.






10. Transit of Venus on June 11.






11. At 16-08 UTC on July 29 - Mercury will occult Mars.






12. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






13. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






14. Grand Trine of Uranus - Neptune - and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.






15. March 17






16. Transit of Venus on June 11.






17. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System.






18. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






19. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






20. December 10






21. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






22. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






23. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






24. Mercury occults Neptune.






25. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






26. Triple conjunction Mars






27. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






28. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






29. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






30. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






31. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






32. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






33. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System.






34. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






35. Transit of Venus on June 9.






36. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System






37. Cosmic Call 1 will reach its destination - the star Gliese 777.






38. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






39. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






40. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






41. 7th millennium begins in the Hebrew calendar.






42. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.






43. Triple conjunction Mars






44. Triple conjunction Mars






45. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System






46. December 10






47. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






48. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






49. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






50. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.







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